Developing with Archetypes

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Hello everyone

I am attempting to build some tools to help in the development/publication of archetypes, as such I have a couple of questions :

  • Is it possible to get an up to date copy of the schemas for archetypes, I see the versions on SVN but they seem to be a little out of date ( certainly the type “C_CODE_PHRASE” seems to be missing )

-Secondly I also see that Ocean have release a DLL for parsing ADL files. Has anyone managed to build a .NET project that can take an ADL file and transform it to XML. I would be very interested in discussing how this can be achieved.

As you might have guessed I am new to the world of Archetypes, but I hear the community is great and I am looking forward to getting involved.

regards,
NH

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Richard Kavanagh wrote:

Hello everyone

I am attempting to build some tools to help in the
development/publication of archetypes, as such I have a couple of
questions :

- Is it possible to get an up to date copy of the schemas for
archetypes, I see the versions on SVN but they seem to be a little out
of date ( certainly the type "C_CODE_PHRASE" seems to be missing )

Hi Richard,

not sure where you are looking, but you could easily be in the wrong
place, because I just noticed that the XML -schema page links are
somewhat broken, due I think to more recent Apache remapping rules
designed to give standard URLs to the XSDs, in the manner of W3C. I am
looking into this.

In the meantime, the raw reference to the release page is:
http://www.openehr.org/svn/specification/TAGS/Release-1.0.1/publishing/its/XML-schema/index.html

You will find 2 archetype schemas - the Archetype.xsd and the
OpenehrProfile.xsd. The latter schema contains the special types
C_CODE_PHRASE, C_ORDINAL and C_QUANTITY. They are defined in a separate
package in the specifications (see links under 'Archetype Model' at
http://www.openehr.org/releases/1.0.1/roadmap.html). Originally the
reason for this was to ensure that the main Archetype XSD was completely
general to all industries, by only assuming types available in UML, ISO
11404 and similar standards. However, the added types for health are so
useful and heavily used that I suspect in a future release we may simply
combine the two schemas.

Ocean Informatics also has a bidirectional XML <-> ADL parser component
which can be open sourced if the funding is available.

- thomas beale

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Hi Richard
The source code is. I believe, in the Archetype Editor source available from the openEHR site. Cheers, Sam

Richard Kavanagh wrote:

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